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September 25 is the 268th day of the year (269th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar ; 97 days remain until the end of the year.
Events Pre-1600 275 – For the last time, the Roman Senate chooses an emperor; they elect 75-year-old Marcus Claudius Tacitus .[1] 762 – Led by Muhammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya , the Hasanid branch of the Alids begins the Alid Revolt against the Abbasid Caliphate.1066 – In the Battle of Stamford Bridge , Harald Hardrada , the invading King of Norway, is defeated by King Harold II of England .[2] 1237 – England and Scotland sign the Treaty of York , establishing the location of their common border.1396 – Ottoman Emperor Bayezid I defeats a Christian army at the Battle of Nicopolis .1513 – Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa reaches what would become known as the Pacific Ocean.1555 – The Peace of Augsburg is signed by Emperor Charles V and the princes of the Schmalkaldic League.1601–1900 1901–present 1906 – Leonardo Torres y Quevedo demonstrates the Telekino , guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered to be the first use of a remote control.1911 – An explosion of badly degraded propellant charges on board the French battleship Liberté detonates the forward ammunition magazines and destroys the ship.1912 – Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City.1915 – World War I : The Second Battle of Champagne begins.1926 – The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed.1937 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Eighth Route Army gains a minor, but morale-boosting victory in the Battle of Pingxingguan .1944 – World War II : Surviving elements of the British 1st Airborne Division withdraw from Arnhem via Oosterbeek.1955 – The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded.1956 – TAT-1 , the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, is inaugurated.1957 – Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops.1959 – Solomon Bandaranaike , Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, is mortally wounded by a Buddhist monk, Talduwe Somarama , and dies the next day.1962 – The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government.1962 – The North Yemen Civil War begins when Abdullah al-Sallal dethrones the newly crowned Imam al-Badr and declares Yemen a republic under his presidency. 1963 – Lord Denning releases the UK government's official report on the Profumo affair .1964 – The Mozambican War of Independence against Portugal begins.1969 – The charter establishing the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation is signed.1974 – Dr. Frank Jobe performs first ulnar collateral ligament replacement surgery (better known as Tommy John surgery) on baseball player Tommy John .1977 – About 4,200 people take part in the first running of the Chicago Marathon .1978 – PSA Flight 182 , a Boeing 727, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, killing 144 people.1981 – Belize joins the United Nations.1983 – Thirty-eight IRA prisoners, armed with six handguns, hijack a prison meals lorry and smash their way out of the Maze Prison .1992 – NASA launches the Mars Observer 1998 – PauknAir Flight 4101 , a British Aerospace 146 , crashes near Melilla Airport in Melilla , Spain , killing 38 people.[5] 2003 – The 8.3 Mw Hokkaidō earthquake strikes just offshore Hokkaidō, Japan.2018 – Bill Cosby is sentenced to three to ten years in prison for aggravated sexual assault .Births Pre-1600 1358 – Ashikaga Yoshimitsu , Japanese shōgun (d. 1408)1403 – Louis III of Anjou (d. 1434)[6] 1525 – Steven Borough , English explorer and navigator (d. 1584)1528 – Otto II, Duke of Brunswick-Harburg (d. 1603)1529 – Günther XLI, Count of Schwarzburg-Arnstadt (d. 1583)1599 – Francesco Borromini , Swiss-Italian architect, designed the San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane and Sant'Agnese in Agone (d. 1667)1601–1900 1636 – Ferdinand Joseph, Prince of Dietrichstein , German prince (d. 1698)1644 – Ole Rømer , Danish astronomer and instrument maker (d. 1710)1663 – Johann Nikolaus Hanff , German organist and composer (d. 1711)1683 – Jean-Philippe Rameau , French composer and theorist (d. 1764)1694 – Henry Pelham , English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1754)1711 – Qianlong Emperor of China (d. 1799)1738 – Nicholas Van Dyke , American lawyer and politician, 7th Governor of Delaware (d. 1789)1741 – Wenzel Pichl , Czech violinist, composer, and director (d. 1805)1744 – Frederick William II of Prussia (d. 1797)1758 – Josepha Barbara Auernhammer , Austrian pianist and composer (d. 1820)1761 – William Mullins, 2nd Baron Ventry , Anglo-Irish politician and peer (d. 1827)1764 – Fletcher Christian , English sailor (d. 1793)1766 – Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu , French general and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of France (d. 1822)1771 – Nikolay Raevsky , Russian general and politician (d. 1829)1773 – Agostino Bassi , Italian entomologist and author (d. 1856)1782 – Charles Maturin , Irish author and playwright (d. 1824)1798 – Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont , French geologist and engineer (d. 1874)1816 – Georg August Rudolph , German lawyer and politician, 3rd Mayor of Marburg (d. 1893)1825 – William Pitt Ballinger , American lawyer and politician (d. 1888)1825 – Joachim Heer , Swiss lawyer and politician, President of the National Council (d. 1879) 1839 – Karl Alfred von Zittel , German palaeontologist and geologist (d. 1904)1862 – Léon Boëllmann , French organist and composer (d. 1897)1862 – Billy Hughes , English-Australian carpenter and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1952)[7] 1865 – Henri Lebasque , French artist (d. 1937)1866 – Thomas Hunt Morgan , American biologist, geneticist, and embryologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1945)1867 – Yevgeny Miller , Russian general (d. 1938)1877 – Plutarco Elías Calles , Mexican general and President (d. 1945)[8] 1879 – Lope K. Santos , Filipino lawyer and politician, 4th Governor of Rizal (d. 1963)1881 – Lu Xun , Chinese author and critic (d. 1936)1884 – Adolf Bolm , Russian ballet dancer and choreographer (d. 1951)1888 – Hanna Ralph , German actress (d. 1978)1889 – Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff , Scottish author and translator (d. 1930)1893 – Harald Cramér , Swedish mathematician and statistician (d. 1985)1896 – Sandro Pertini , Italian journalist and politician, 7th President of Italy (d. 1990)1897 – William Faulkner , American novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)1898 – Robert Brackman , Ukrainian-American painter and educator (d. 1980)1899 – Udumalai Narayana Kavi , Indian poet and songwriter (d. 1981)1900 – Artur Sirk , Estonian soldier, lawyer, and politician (d. 1937)1901–present 1901 – Robert Bresson , French director and screenwriter (d. 1999)1901 – Gordon Coventry , Australian footballer (d. 1968) 1903 – Mark Rothko , Latvian-American painter and educator (d. 1970)1906 – Volfgangs Dārziņš , Latvian composer, pianist, and music critic (d. 1962)1906 – Phyllis Pearsall , English painter, cartographer, and author (d. 1996) 1906 – Dmitri Shostakovich , Russian pianist and composer (d. 1975) 1908 – Jacqueline Audry , French director and screenwriter (d. 1977)1910 – Ralph Jordan , American football player and coach (d. 1980)1911 – Eric Williams , Trinidadian historian and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 1981)1914 – John Manners , English naval officer and cricketer[9] 1916 – Jessica Anderson , Australian author and playwright (d. 2010)1916 – Deendayal Upadhyaya , Indian economist, sociologist, and journalist (d. 1968) 1917 – Phil Rizzuto , American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2007)1920 – Sergei Bondarchuk , Ukrainian-Russian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1994)1920 – Satish Dhawan , Indian engineer (d. 2002) 1921 – Rob Muldoon , New Zealand sergeant, accountant, and politician, 31st Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1992)1922 – Hammer DeRoburt , Nauruian educator and politician, 1st President of Nauru (d. 1992)1923 – Robert Laxalt , American author and academic (d. 2001)1923 – Sam Rivers , American saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer (d. 2011) 1924 – Norman Ayrton , English actor and director (d. 2017)1924 – Red Webb , American baseball player (d. 1996) 1925 – Silvana Pampanini , Italian model, actress, and director, Miss Italy 1946 (d. 2016)1926 – Jack Hyles , American pastor and author (d. 2001)1926 – Aldo Ray , American actor (d. 1991) 1927 – Carl Braun , American basketball player and coach (d. 2010)[10] 1927 – Colin Davis , English conductor and educator (d. 2013) 1929 – Ronnie Barker , English actor and screenwriter (d. 2005)1929 – Delia Scala , Italian ballerina and actress (d. 2004) 1929 – Barbara Walters , American journalist, producer, and author 1930 – Nino Cerruti , Italian fashion designer, founded Cerruti (d. 2022)1930 – Shel Silverstein , American author, poet, illustrator, and songwriter (d. 1999) 1931 – Manouchehr Atashi , Iranian journalist and poet (d. 2005)1931 – Bryan John Birch , English mathematician and scholar 1932 – Glenn Gould , Canadian pianist and composer (d. 1982)1932 – Terry Medwin , Welsh footballer and manager 1932 – Adolfo Suárez , Spanish lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Spain (d. 2014) 1933 – Hubie Brown , American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster1933 – Ian Tyson , Canadian folk singer-songwriter and musician 1936 – Ken Forsse , American toy creator and author, created Teddy Ruxpin (d. 2014)1936 – Juliet Prowse , South African-American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 1996) 1936 – Moussa Traoré , Malian general and politician 2nd President of Mali (d. 2020) 1937 – Mary Allen Wilkes , American computer scientist and lawyer1938 – Ron Hill , English runner and businessman (d. 2021)1938 – Jonathan Motzfeldt , Greenlandic priest and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Greenland (d. 2010) 1938 – Enn Tarto , Estonian politician 1939 – Leon Brittan , English lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (d. 2015)1939 – Feroz Khan , Indian actor, director, and producer (d. 2009) 1939 – David S. Mann , American lawyer and politician, Mayor of Cincinnati 1940 – Tim Severin , Indian-English explorer, historian, and author1941 – Vivien Stern, Baroness Stern , English academic and politician1942 – Oscar Bonavena , Argentinian boxer (d. 1976)1942 – Robert Miano , American actor and producer 1942 – Henri Pescarolo , French race car driver 1942 – John Taylor , English pianist and educator (d. 2015) 1942 – Dee Dee Warwick , American singer (d. 2008) 1943 – Robert Gates , American lieutenant, academic, and politician, 22nd United States Secretary of Defense 1943 – John Locke , American keyboard player (d. 2006) 1943 – Aram Saroyan , American poet and novelist 1943 – Robert Walden , American actor, director, and screenwriter 1944 – Michael Douglas , American actor and producer1944 – Doris Matsui , American politician 1944 – Grayson Shillingford , Dominican cricketer (d. 2009) 1945 – Kathleen Brown , American lawyer and politician, 29th California State Treasurer 1945 – Carol Vadnais , Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2014) 1946 – Bishan Singh Bedi , Indian cricketer and coach1946 – Felicity Kendal , English actress[11] 1946 – Bryan MacLean , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 1998) 1946 – Janusz Majer , Polish mountaineer 1946 – Gil Morgan , American golfer 1946 – Ali Parvin , Iranian footballer 1946 – Jerry Penrod , American bass player 1947 – Giannos Kranidiotis , Greek politician and diplomat (d. 1999)1947 – Cheryl Tiegs , American model and actress 1947 – Cecil Womack , American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2013) 1948 – Mimi Kennedy , American actress and screenwriter1948 – Vladimir Yevtushenkov , Russian businessman 1949 – Pedro Almodóvar , Spanish director, producer, and screenwriter1949 – Jeff Borowiak , American tennis player 1949 – Steve Mackay , American saxophonist and composer (d. 2015) 1950 – Stanisław Szozda , Polish cyclist and trainer (d. 2013)1951 – Yardena Arazi , Israeli singer1951 – Burleigh Drummond , American drummer and songwriter 1951 – Graeme Knowles , English bishop 1951 – Mark Hamill , American actor, singer, and producer 1951 – Bob McAdoo , American basketball player and coach 1952 – Colin Friels , Scottish-Australian actor1952 – Jimmy Garvin , American wrestler and manager 1952 – bell hooks , American author and activist (d. 2021) 1952 – Cherríe Moraga , American poet, playwright, and activist 1952 – Tommy Norden , American actor 1952 – Chris Pond , English politician 1952 – Christopher Reeve , American actor, producer, and activist (d. 2004) 1953 – Richard Harvey , English mandolin player, keyboard player, and composer1953 – Ron Rash , American novelist, short story writer, poet 1954 – Sylvester Croom , American football player and coach 1954 – Joep Lange , Dutch physician and academic (d. 2014) 1954 – Juande Ramos , Spanish footballer and manager 1955 – Ludo Coeck , Belgian footballer (d. 1985)1955 – Zucchero Fornaciari , Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist 1955 – Amyr Klink , Brazilian sailor and explorer 1955 – Luanne Rice , American author and activist 1955 – Karl-Heinz Rummenigge , German footballer and manager 1955 – Steven Severin , English bass player, songwriter, and producer 1956 – W. Daniel Hillis , American computer scientist, engineer, and author, founded the Thinking Machines Corporation 1956 – Jamie Hyneman , American special effects designer and television host, founded M5 Industries 1956 – Miroslav Volf , Croatian Protestant theologian and public intellectual 1957 – Michael Madsen , American actor and producer1957 – Vladimir Popovkin , Russian general (d. 2014) 1958 – Randy Kerber , American keyboard player, composer, and conductor1959 – Jeon Soo-il , South Korean director, producer, and screenwriter1960 – Igor Belanov , Ukrainian footballer and manager1961 – Mehmet Aslantuğ , Turkish actor, director, producer, and screenwriter1961 – Heather Locklear , American actress 1961 – Steve Scott , British journalist and presenter 1961 – Tim Zoehrer , Australian cricketer 1962 – Kalthoum Sarrai , Tunisian-French psychologist and journalist (d. 2010)1962 – Aida Turturro , American actress 1962 – Dariusz Wdowczyk , Polish footballer and coach 1963 – Tate Donovan , American actor1963 – Keely Shaye Smith , American journalist and author 1964 – Gary Ayles , English race car driver1964 – Barbara Dennerlein , German organist 1964 – Rebecca Gablé , German novelist 1964 – Kikuko Inoue , Japanese singer-songwriter and voice actress 1964 – Joey Saputo , Canadian businessman 1965 – Matt Battaglia , American football player, actor, and producer1965 – Saffron Henderson , Canadian voice actress and singer 1965 – Scottie Pippen , American basketball player and sportscaster 1965 – Anne Roumanoff , French actress and screenwriter 1965 – Dave Rundle , South African cricketer 1965 – Rob Schmidt , American director and screenwriter 1965 – Rafael Martín Vázquez , Spanish footballer and coach 1965 – Nicky Winmar , Australian footballer 1966 – Stanislav Bunin , Russian pianist and educator1966 – Todd Philcox , American football player 1967 – Kim Issel , Canadian ice hockey player1967 – Ashwin Sood , English-Canadian drummer and producer 1968 – John A. List , American economist and academic1968 – Will Smith , American actor, producer, and rapper 1968 – John Worsfold , Australian footballer and coach 1969 – Hansie Cronje , South African cricketer (d. 2002)1969 – Bill Simmons , American journalist and author 1969 – Hal Sparks , American actor, comedian, musician and political commentator[12] 1969 – Tony Womack , American baseball player 1969 – Catherine Zeta-Jones , Welsh actress 1970 – Curtis Buckley , American football player and psychiatrist1971 – Nikos Boudouris , Greek basketball player and manager1971 – John Lynch , American football player and sportscaster 1971 – Seb Sanders , English jockey 1972 – Douglas September , Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer1973 – Tijani Babangida , Nigerian footballer1973 – Jenny Chapman , English politician 1974 – Bill Bowler , Canadian ice hockey player and coach1974 – Olivier Dacourt , French footballer 1974 – John Granville , American scholar and diplomat (d. 2008) 1974 – Paul Hurst , English footballer and manager 1974 – Daniel Kessler , English-American singer and guitarist 1974 – Frank Leder , German fashion designer 1974 – Robbie Mears , Australian rugby league player and coach 1974 – Eric Moss , American football player (d. 2019) 1974 – Joel Prpic , Canadian ice hockey player 1974 – Javier Rosas , Mexican triathlete 1974 – Kemel Thompson , Jamaican hurdler 1975 – Daniela Ceccarelli , Italian skier1975 – Declan Donnelly , English entertainer 1975 – Matt Hasselbeck , American football player 1975 – Dat Nguyen , American football player and coach 1976 – Santigold , American singer-songwriter and producer1976 – Chauncey Billups , American basketball player 1976 – Eric Roberson , American singer-songwriter and producer 1976 – Charlotte Ayanna , Puerto Rican American actress 1977 – Clea DuVall , American actress1977 – Joel David Moore , American actor 1977 – Mike Krahulik , American illustrator 1977 – Wil Nieves , Puerto Rican-American baseball player 1978 – Joe Cotton , Canadian-New Zealand singer1978 – Roudolphe Douala , Cameroonian footballer 1978 – Ricardo Gardner , Jamaican footballer 1978 – Jodie Kidd , English model and actress 1978 – Ryan Leslie , American singer-songwriter and producer 1978 – Joel Piñeiro , Puerto Rican baseball player 1979 – Kyle Bennett , American BMX rider (d. 2012)1979 – Rashad Evans , American mixed martial artist and wrestler 1979 – Jason Koumas , Welsh footballer 1979 – Jean-René Lisnard , French tennis player 1980 – T.I. , American rapper, songwriter, producer, and actor1981 – Rocco Baldelli , American baseball player1981 – Jason Bergmann , American baseball player 1982 – Hyun Bin , South Korean actor1983 – Donald Glover , American actor, rapper, producer, and screenwriter1983 – Terrance Pennington , American football player 1984 – Cherine Anderson , Jamaican singer-songwriter and actress1984 – Matías Silvestre , Argentinian footballer 1985 – Gökhan Güleç , Turkish footballer1985 – Marvin Matip , German footballer 1986 – Heidi El Tabakh , Egyptian-Canadian tennis player1986 – Jamie O'Hara , English footballer 1986 – Marten Strauch , German rugby player 1986 – Steve Forrest , American drummer 1986 – Choi Yoon-young , South Korean actress 1987 – Monica Niculescu , Romanian tennis player1987 – Mustafa Yumlu , Turkish footballer 1989 – Cuco Martina , Curaçaoan footballer1989 – Aldon Smith , American football player 1990 – Mao Asada , Japanese figure skater1990 – Daria Strokous , Russian model, actress, and photographer 1991 – Emmy Clarke , American actress1991 – Alessandro Crescenzi , Italian footballer 1991 – Calle Järnkrok , Swedish ice hockey player 1992 – Zoël Amberg , Swiss race car driver1992 – Kerrod Holland , Australian rugby league player 1992 – Massimo Luongo , Australian footballer 1992 – Keauna McLaughlin , American figure skater 1992 – Ruslan Zhiganshin , Russian ice dancer 1993 – Toby Greene , Australian footballer1995 – Todd Hazelwood , Australian race car driver[13] 1996 – Anett Vilipuu , Estonian footballerDeaths Pre-1600 1066 – Harald Hardrada , Norwegian king (b. 1015)1066 – Maria Haraldsdotter , Norwegian princess 1066 – Tostig Godwinson , English son of Godwin, Earl of Wessex 1086 – William VIII, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 1025)1087 – Simon I de Montfort , French nobleman (b. c. 1025)1333 – Prince Morikuni , Japanese shōgun (b. 1301)1367 – Jakushitsu Genkō , Japanese poet (b. 1290)1396 – Jean de Carrouges , French knight (b. 1330)1396 – Jean de Vienne , French general and admiral (b. 1341) 1496 – Piero Capponi , Italian soldier and politician (b. 1447)1506 – Philip I of Castile (b. 1478)1534 – Pope Clement VII (b. 1478)1536 – Johannes Secundus , Dutch author and poet (b. 1511)1550 – Georg von Blumenthal , German bishop (b. 1490)1588 – Tilemann Heshusius , German Gnesio-Lutheran theologian (b. 1527)1601–1900 1602 – Caspar Peucer , German physician, scholar, and reformer (b. 1525)1615 – Arbella Stuart , English noblewoman and woman of letters (b. 1575)1617 – Emperor Go-Yōzei of Japan (b. 1572)1617 – Francisco Suárez , Spanish priest, philosopher, and theologian (b. 1548) 1621 – Mary Sidney , English writer,1626 – Lancelot Andrewes , English bishop and scholar (b. 1555)1630 – Ambrogio Spinola, 1st Marquis of the Balbases , Italian general and politician, Governor of the Duchy of Milan (b. 1569)1665 – Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (b. 1610)1703 – Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll , Scottish general (b. 1658)1774 – John Bradstreet , Canadian-English general (b. 1714)1777 – Johann Heinrich Lambert , Swiss mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (b. 1728)1791 – William Bradford , American soldier and publisher (b. 1719)1792 – Adam Gottlob Moltke , Danish politician and diplomat (b. 1710)1794 – Paul Rabaut , French pastor (b. 1718)1828 – Charlotta Seuerling , Swedish singer, harpsichord player, and composer (b. 1783)1849 – Johann Strauss I , Austrian composer (b. 1804)1867 – Oliver Loving , American rancher, co-developed the Goodnight–Loving Trail (b. 1812)1893 – Louise von François , German author (b. 1817)1900 – Félix-Gabriel Marchand , Canadian journalist and politician, 11th Premier of Québec (b. 1832)1900 – John M. Palmer , American general and politician, 15th Governor of Illinois (b. 1817) 1901–present 1901 – Arthur Fremantle , English general and politician, Governor of Malta (b. 1835)1905 – Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac , French educator and politician (b. 1853)1917 – Thomas Ashe , Irish Republican Brotherhood volunteer, and rebel commander (b. 1885)1918 – Mikhail Alekseyev , Russian general (b. 1857)1926 – Herbert Booth , English songwriter and bandleader (b. 1862)1928 – Richard F. Outcault , American cartoonist, created The Yellow Kid Buster Brown 1929 – Miller Huggins , American baseball player and manager (b. 1879)1933 – Ring Lardner , American journalist and author (b. 1885)1939 – Ali Saip Ursavaş , Turkish soldier and politician (b. 1885)1941 – Foxhall P. Keene , American polo player, golfer, and race car driver (b. 1867)1943 – Alexander Hall , Scottish-Canadian soccer player (b. 1880)1946 – Hans Eppinger , Austrian physician (b. 1879)1955 – Martha Norelius Swedish-born American swimmer (b. 1909)[14] 1958 – John B. Watson , American psychologist and academic (b. 1878)1960 – Emily Post , American author and educator (b. 1873)1961 – Frank Fay , American actor and singer (b. 1897)1968 – Hans F. K. Günther , German eugenicist and academic (b. 1891)1968 – Cornell Woolrich , American author and screenwriter (b. 1903) 1970 – Erich Maria Remarque , German-Swiss author and translator (b. 1898)1971 – Hugo Black , American captain, jurist, and politician (b. 1886)1980 – John Bonham , English drummer and songwriter (b. 1948)1980 – Lewis Milestone , Russian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1895) 1980 – Marie Under , Estonian author and poet (b. 1883) 1983 – Leopold III of Belgium (b. 1901)1984 – Walter Pidgeon , Canadian-American actor (b. 1897)1986 – Darshan Singh Canadian , Indian-Canadian trade union leader and activist (b. 1917)1986 – Donald MacDonald , Canadian union leader and politician (b. 1909) 1986 – Nikolay Semyonov , Russian physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896) 1986 – Hans Vogt , Norwegian linguist and academic (b. 1909) 1987 – Mary Astor , American actress (b. 1906)1987 – Emlyn Williams , Welsh actor and playwright (b. 1905) 1988 – Billy Carter , American farmer and businessman (b. 1937)1988 – Arthur Võõbus , Estonian-American orientalist and scholar (b. 1909) 1990 – Prafulla Chandra Sen , Indian accountant and politician, 3rd Chief Minister of West Bengal (b. 1897)1991 – Klaus Barbie , German SS captain, known as the "Butcher of Lyon" (b. 1913)1991 – Viviane Romance , French actress and producer (b. 1912) 1992 – Ivan Vdović , Serbian musician (b. 1961)1995 – Dave Bowen , Welsh footballer and manager (b. 1928)1995 – Annie Elizabeth Delany , American dentist and author (b. 1891) 1997 – Hélène Baillargeon , Canadian singer and actress (b. 1916)1997 – Jean Françaix , French pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1912) 1999 – Marion Zimmer Bradley , American author (b. 1930)2003 – Aqila al-Hashimi , Iraqi translator and politician (b. 1953)2003 – Herb Gardner , American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1934) 2003 – Franco Modigliani , Italian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918) 2003 – George Plimpton , American writer and literary editor (b. 1927) 2005 – Don Adams , American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1923)2005 – Madeline-Ann Aksich , Canadian businesswoman and philanthropist (b. 1956) 2005 – George Archer , American golfer (b. 1939) 2005 – Urie Bronfenbrenner , Russian-American psychologist and ecologist (b. 1917) 2005 – Ghulam Mustafa Khan , Pakistani linguist and critic (b. 1912) 2005 – M. Scott Peck , American psychiatrist and author (b. 1936) 2005 – Friedrich Peter , Austrian lawyer and politician (b. 1921) 2006 – Jeff Cooper , American target shooter and author (b. 1920)2006 – John M. Ford , American author and poet (b. 1957) 2007 – Haidar Abdel-Shafi , Palestinian physician and politician (b. 1919)2007 – André Emmerich , German-American art dealer (b. 1924) 2008 – Derog Gioura , Nauruan politician, 23rd President of Nauru (b. 1932)2009 – Alicia de Larrocha , Spanish pianist (b. 1923)2009 – Pierre Falardeau , Canadian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1946) 2011 – Wangari Maathai , Kenyan environmentalist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1940)2012 – Billy Barnes , American composer and songwriter (b. 1927)2012 – John Bond , English footballer and manager (b. 1923) 2012 – Eric Ives , English historian and academic (b. 1931) 2012 – Alonso Lujambio , Mexican academic and politician (b. 1962) 2012 – Andy Williams , American singer (b. 1927) 2013 – Ron Fenton , English footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1940)2013 – Choi In-ho , South Korean author and screenwriter (b. 1945) 2013 – José Montoya , American poet and academic (b. 1932) 2013 – Billy Mure , American guitarist and composer (b. 1915) 2013 – Pablo Verani , Italian-Argentinian lawyer and politician (b. 1938) 2013 – Bennet Wong , Canadian psychiatrist and academic, co-founded Haven Institute (b. 1930) 2014 – Ulrick Chérubin , Haitian-Canadian educator and politician (b. 1943)2014 – Sulejman Tihić , Bosnian lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1951) 2014 – Dorothy Tyler-Odam , English high jumper (b. 1920) 2015 – Claudio Baggini , Italian Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1936)2015 – John Galvin , American general (b. 1929) 2015 – Tom Kelley , American baseball player and manager (b. 1944) 2015 – Moti Kirschenbaum , Israeli journalist (b. 1939) 2016 – José Fernández , Cuban-American baseball player (b. 1992)2016 – Arnold Palmer , American golfer (b. 1929) 2016 – Nahid Hattar , Jordanian writer and political activist (b. 1960) Holidays and observances References ^ Edward Smedley; Hugh James Rose; Henry John Rose (1845). 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